127 MILLION TERMINAL PASSENGERS\* AT LONDON AIRPORTS IN 2010

\*In 2010, more than 127,200,000 passengers - twice the number of UK population, set foot on London airports. However, not all of them came to the capital, and some haven’t even left the terminals.

PASSENGERS LONDON AIRPORTS IN 2000 vs 2010

2000

- Heathrow 64.3 mln
- Luton 6.2 mln
- Stansted 11.9 mln
- Gatwick 31.9 mln
- City 1.6 mln

2010

- Heathrow 65.7 mln (+2% at 99% capacity)
- Luton 8.7 mln (+41% ‘significant capacity for growth’)
- Stansted 18.6 mln (+56% ‘significant spare capacity, but at inconvenient or less desirable times’)
- Gatwick 31.3 mln (-2% at 95% capacity)
- City 2.8 mln (+76% ‘small capacity for growth’)

In 2000 Heathrow and Gatwick handled 96.2 million people - 83% of all visitors coming to London airports. The remaining three airports had less than 20 million visitors.

In 2010 the percentage of all visitors handled by two main airports fell to 76% - despite a slight increase in the number of visitors. The three smaller airports welcomed 30 million people - an increase of 50% compared to 2000.

INTERNATIONAL PASSENGERS

International passenger movement from and to London airports is dominated by Europe with 74 million passengers, followed by North America at 19, Middle East and Asia at 8 million.

FLIGHTS & PASSENGERS

London airports receive roughly 59% of all passengers and 78% of air freight coming to the UK but only 44% of all flights.

Top 10 destinations for passengers from and to London airports are listed below. It’s important to note that these are the direct destinations of planes carrying passengers from or to London airports, and not final destinations of passengers. Hence absence of destinations which have stopovers on the way - such as Australia - and hence the high position of travel hubs like the US or UAE.

01. United States 13,871,000
02. Spain 12,242,000
03. Germany 8,311,000
04. Italy 7,833,000
05. France 5,639,000
06. Ireland 5,425,000
07. Canada 4,929,000
08. Switzerland 3,982,000
09. Netherlands 3,140,000
10. UAE 2,922,000